The winning and second place
slides/images will be retained for the final in November, at which
the overall winner will receive the BSoUP 'Focus On'
Trophy.

Our World Underwater
Show Photo Competition

In association with the Our
World-Underwater Show Wetpixel.com and DivePhotoGuide.com have teamed up again to
celebrate the beauty and delicacy of the marine environment with
their 2nd annual international underwater photography and video
competition. The competition aims to become the "Superbowl" of
international underwater photo competitions - with fantastic prizes,
celebrity judges and the opportunity to have your images showcased to
the world as some of the world's best.

Celebrity judges Stephen Frink,
Dr. Alexander Mustard, and Eric Cheng will select winners after the
Jan 7, 2007 deadline. Winners will be
announced on stage at the 2007 Our
World-Underwater film festival in Chicago, Illinois (February
9-11, 2007),

NEW! DIVE Photo
Gallery

DIVE has launched a new
Photography section dedicated to underwater
images, where you can share your underwater snaps with divers online
all over the world. Whether you are a budding David Doubilet or
simply want to showcase your latest diving holiday snaps, here's your
chance to upload your own gallery on diving's best
website.

Vote for your favourite snaps,
discuss images in the forum pages and enter the monthly Hot Shots competition for a chance to win 2GB of
memory for your digital camera.

All Hot Shot winners' pictures
will be printed in DIVE magazine. They will also be entered
into a separate competition, that you can vote for, to win a fabulous
prize at the British Underwater Image Festival in March 2007.
You can also access a full archive of articles dedicated to
underwater photography, from equipment tests to skills advice.
Visit the 'reviews' section and you can comment on all your
latest camera kit and read what other people think.

If you are a BSoUP member and
there is no link to your website on the list please send your name and URL of
your site to Gill
McDonald.

Reminder: If
your website is listed, please ensure that you include a link to the
BSoUP website (http://www.bsoup.org) on your's.

BSoUPSeptember
meeting

Wednesday20th September 2006 at
7.30 for 8.00 p.m. in The Holland
Club, Imperial College, South Kensington, London SW7.

MARTHATRESSLER - Back to
Basics

Ouresteemed chair Martha will kick off at 8 with a
returnto some of the more essential techniques of
underwaterphotography. She will discuss apertures and shutter speed , depth
of field and natural light together with the effectof different
lenses. Her talk will be ideal for thosenewer tothe discipline,and
also provide a useful reminder for those who are longerin the tooth,
underwater image wise.

Marthafirst picked up a marine camera in the mid
90's but countsher underwater photography from a trip to Sipadan in
1997with Martin Edge, after which she traded in her Nik V fora housed
SLR.

But it was her move to digital
in late 2004that made her seriously reconsider her use of the
camera,which had reached a reliance on its many automatic functions -
safe and predictable. Her talk is aimed at going backto the basics of
camera use.

COMPETITION- THE WORLD
IN OUR HANDS

Environmental,conservation,
human damage to the oceans and seas etc. Entriesmust be in by Tuesday
midnight September 19. Entryform.

PAULKAY - The power of
RAW

Paul has been perfecting the art
of underwater photography for 25 years. Heis a professional freelance
photographer with a degree in scientificphotography and an FRPS. He's
also a BSoUP member. Paul specialises intemperate, marine natural
history stills photography with the occasionalcommission in video. He
is based in North Wales and dives mostly around theUK/Ireland,
although he was spotted enjoying New Zealand earlier this year.Paul
uses digital equipment in Seacam housings which he also outlets
atwww.underseacameras.comPaul will talk about image processing, its
capabilities and how it can pushimagery forward. He will start with
the RAW conversion and then move intooptimisation/ adjustment/
enhancement/ manipulation/ falsification - enoughfood for thought he
thinks!

gill McDonald

Visions in the Sea
2006

The 10th Annual Visions in the
Sea takes place on 4 and 5 November 2006 in London. The event is
unique in the northern hemisphere and promises underwater
photographers a winning combination of presentations that will
showcase awesome underwater images from around the globe, together
with talks designed to jelp them get their own stunning
images.

The SEAS Expo 2006 Underwater
Photo Competition is open to entrants of all skill levels, including
amateurs and professionals. For purposes of the competition an
"amateur" is defined as an individual for whom the majority (greater
than 50%) of his or her income is derived from photography or the
instruction of photography in any form.

Entry fee is $15 per photo per
category. A completed entry form and entry fee must accompany all
submissions. Forms may be downloaded and printed from the SEAS Expo
website (www.seas-expo.com) or by emailing a request to
photocontest@seas-expo.com. Remittance of entry fee is payable by
check or money order in U. S. funds to: NCADO.
Please mail all entries to SEAS Expo 2006 Underwater Photo
Competition, 2109 Howson Road, Raleigh, NC 27603. Entries received
without accompanying entry form and entry fee(s) will not be
considered. Entries must be received at the above address not
later than October 1, 2006.

The Underwater Photographic
Society of Los Angeles announces the opening of the 44th Annual
International Underwater Photographic Competition. The competition is
open to all non-professional underwater photographers and
videographers.
With a diverse field of 10 digital, print and video categories the
open competition promises to be very exciting.

Category winners will receive a
variety of prizes that include Live-Aboard Dive Trips, Land Based
Dive Trips, Photographic Equipment, Diving Equipment and
More.

The deadline for entries
is 22 September, 2006. Judging by an esteemed panel of
industry professionals will occur on September 30th and October
1st.

Ocean Optics and
Mavericks Diving are hosting an Introduction to Digital Photography
by Maria Munn, Ocean Visions on Thursday 28 September at 7.00 for 7.30.
The presentation will take place at Kings College opposite the
shop.

Please note tickets are free but
you must pre-register as places are limited. Contact Ocean Optics at
optics@oceanoptics.co.uk

The Sept/Oct issue of the FREE
bi-monthly web based magazine Underwater Photography (UwP) is now
available at http://www.uwpmag.com/

This issue includes News, New
products, Product reviews, Locations, Tips and Techniques, Marine
life, a Book review and the Parting shot.

The magazine is produced by
former BSoUP Chairman and current BSoUP member Peter Rowlands and
includes articles by BSoUP members and others.

St Abbs Splash In -
BSoUP members triumph

DIGITAL

Cathy Lewis was
the clear winner of the Marine Life Portrait category (and also stole
the prize for Best Digital Image) with her fantastic shot of two Wolf
Fish snuggling up in a crevice. Steve Bateman came
in second with his close up of a flatfish half buried in the sand.
The Reserve Atmospheric category was a close run thing, but
Mike Clark's image of a diver approaching an Edible
Crab hiding amongst Dead Men's Fingers just pipped JP
Trenque's black and white image to the post. In the Most
Humorous Shot category, Shaun Mitchell's Logging
Bottom Time was a resounding favourite with Jane
Morgan's Snake Charmer being the runner-up. Andrew
Bunyan got a prize for Best Digital Beginner.

Bill Hewitt
took first place for Marine Life Portrait with his close-up of an
Angler Fish, with Jason Gregory being pushed into
second place with his close up of a Ballan Wrasse. In the Reserve
Atmospheric category a Ballen Wrasse was popular again in, this one
hiding under an overhang in Brian Jubb's wide angle shot. So popular,
in fact, that it won Best Film Image too. Peter
Ladell's picture of a shoal of coleys came in second for
Reserve Atmospheric. There was an overwhelming winner for Most
Humorous Shot for Jason Gregory's comment on the
Parking Charges at St. Abbs, and Peter Ladell collected another
second prize for his Party Animal. Best Film Beginner was won by
Julie Forrest.

JP Trenque,
BSoUP's Publicity Officer and the smartest diver at
this year's Splash In [see Splash In people], has created a
Forum for BSoUP Members to exchange their views.

Forum
testing

BSoUP Splash-in

General
discussions

Sipadan, Mabul and
Kapalai

Red Sea on Royal Evolution
Photo Special 29 Nov 06

Wanted Subtronic
strobes

Buying software
licences

Discuss your gear
!

BSoUP 40th
anniversary

Buy or sell your stuff here
!

Advertise your
trips and look for buddies !

JP Trenque

To join
the BSoUP Forum all you need to do is go to www.bsoup.org/members/index.php
OR click on the BSoUP Members Forum link on the
HOME page [top right] and login with your
e-mail address and a password. Currently verification that you are a
member of BSoUP is done semi-automatically, so there
may be a delay before you can actually use the BSoUP Forum. The delay
issue is currently being resolved and in future verification should be
fully automatic - the membership database has to transfered to the
server for this to happen.